The PEN Ten: An Interview with the 2021 PEN Prison Writing Award Winners
Interview
By: Peter Watson | December 23, 2021
“Am I a writer imprisoned, or has imprisonment made me a writer? Parallel universes aside, imprisonment. . . does contain all the essential ingredients of a writer’s life.” More
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